This is a list of blogging terms . Blogging , like any hobby, has developed something of a specialised vocabulary . The following is an attempt to explain a few of the more common phrases and words, including etymologies when not obvious.

Food blogging represents a complex interweaving of “ foodie ” or gourmet interest in cooking with those of blog writing and photography. The majority of blogs use pictures taken by the author himself/herself and some of them focus specifically on food photography . These blogs can be monetised by the blog creators for profit.

Blogging Tories is the name of a group of Canadian bloggers who come from the centre, centre-right, right-wing and libertarian sides of the political spectrum. The Blogging Tories are composed of many individual blogs , whose content is aggregated on the main Blogging Tories website.

A podcast , or generically netcast , is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user's own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player .

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. The verb "to stream" refers to the process of delivering or obtaining media in this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium, rather than the medium itself, and is an alternative to file downloading , a process in which the end-user obtains the entire file for the content before watching or listening to it.

Ghost is an open source blogging platform written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT License , designed to simplify the process of online publishing for individual bloggers as well as online publications.